The Books of February

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Another ecclectic month. Classics, profundity, adventure and fluff. For being released by a Romance line, Eileen Wilk's urban fantasy world-building isn't bad at all. And "Urban Shaman" by C.E. Murphy read like Stephanie Plum discovering Magic, very cute. Poul Anderson's Time Patrol is quite nice even upon multiple re-reading (he uses somewhat obscure eras to great effect) but, while some of the idea were interesting, I couldn't really get into Fredrick Pohl's "Gateway". Wolf Star by R.M. Meluch was particularly interesting as, at the end of the first book, the slate was wiped clean by a time travel paradox. In book two, everything happens again, different but the same. Stuff that occured _before_ the first novel happens _in_ the second one, even though #2 definitely comes _after_ the events of #1. Very confusing, but quite entertaining. "Tea With the Black Dragon" was charming, if out-dated and my one piece of nonfiction, "Zamba" tugged the heartstrings on every other page and made me want to go out and get a lion of my very own (the philosophy and metaphysics were annoying interjections, however)

And, of course, the Fionavar Tapestry was amazing.



Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
Night Train to Rigel, Timothy Zahn
The Summer Tree (Fionavar Tapestry #1), Guy Gavriel Kay
The Wandering Fire (Fionavar Tapestry #2), Guy Gavriel Kay
Tears of the Furies, Christopher Golden
Godstalk, P.C. Hodgell
Deathstalker's War, Simon R. Green
The Darkest Road (Fionavar Tapestry #3), Guy Gavriel Kay
Agents of Light and Darkness, Simon R. Green
Conquistador, S.M. Stirling
Gateway, Fredrick Pohl
The Guardians of Time, Poul Anderson
Urban Shaman, C.E. Murphy
Tempting Danger, Eileen Wilks
Mortal Danger, Eileen Wilks
A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett
Truckers, Terry Pratchett
Diggers, Terry Pratchett
Wings, Terry Pratchett
You Slay Me, Katie MacAllister
The Apocalypse Door, James MacDonald
The Hidden Family, Charles Stross
Khai of Khem, Brian Lumley
Wolf Star (Tour of the Merrimack #2), R.M. Meluch
Zamba: The True Story of the Greatest Lion That Ever Lived, Ralph Helfer
Tea With The Black Dragon, R.A. McAvoy
Casebook of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
One for the Morning Glory, John Barnes
Warstrider, William Keith, Jr.